Combining Texts

Ideas for 'In Defense of Essentialism', 'Reference and Modality' and 'Conceptions of Consequence'

expand these ideas     |    start again     |     choose another area for these texts

display all the ideas for this combination of texts

---

5 ideas

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 4. De re / De dicto modality

14645

To be necessarily greater than 7 is not a trait of 7, but depends on how 7 is referred to [Quine]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 11. Denial of Necessity

9201	Whether 9 is necessarily greater than 7 depends on how '9' is described [Quine, by Fine,K]

10927

Necessity only applies to objects if they are distinctively specified [Quine]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 2. Nature of Possible Worlds / a. Nature of possible worlds

14189

'Modal realists' believe in many concrete worlds, 'actualists' in just this world, 'ersatzists' in abstract other worlds [Paul,LA]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 3. Transworld Objects / a. Transworld identity

9203	We can't quantify in modal contexts, because the modality depends on descriptions, not objects [Quine, by Fine,K]